summer_son
12-13-2011, 02:35 PM
Hi there, I am new to the forum.
I am a 25 year old male and for the past month have been quite alarmed by a number of symptoms which seem to have manifested out of thin air. The first thing to happen, I was at work when all of a sudden I felt dizzy and light headed and my heart began to race..I thought I was going to pass out and had cold shooting tingles down my arms and legs..and a whole host of other symptoms like a strange heavy sensation in my chest. My manager called an ambulance and I was taken to A&E. Whilst in the ambulance my pulse was 180 bpm and blood pressure something like 160/110. They took bloods and an ECG and told me everything was normal, apart from having a small heart murmur. So I went home very shaken and not sure what happened. I went to my doctor and he told me it was likely anxiety..he listened to my heart and took my BP and told me it was all fine.
Since then though I have been plagued by a whole array of symptoms. I will be sat there and suddenly feel cold, and have a weird sensation in my heart and go a bit dizzy..I have had to visit A&E two more times with similar episodes of extremely fast pulse and sensations of passing out and dizzyness..each time a similar story, bloods and ECG fine and sent home. This has led me to be constantly worried and I compulsively check my pulse all the time. It seems irregular to me, a few fast beats followed by a pause, then some slower ones. It also varies hugely, for example an hour ago it was 100 bpm and now it is just about 60 bpm.. yet I haven't got up off the sofa.
Other things that happen, I seem to have lost my apetite completely, I have no issue eating if I think to..but my natural urge to eat seems to have dissapeared.
I am also quite scared of falling asleep..a few times in the past I have awoken suddenly with the feeling that I have just stopped breathing or my heart has stopped, I usually put this down to dreaming and didn't think anything of it but lately I have became more and more worried about it. Sometimes at night my heart rate is very slow and I just feel like my natural urge to breathe is absent..and if I fell asleep I would just stop breathing. Its actually led to me laying there for hours and hours, and if I do feel like Im about to drop off I will set my alarm for 30 minutes time just to make sure I can wake up..Im sure none of this is helping any anxiety I may have.
Just for the record, I had never mentioned this worry to anyone, and two weeks ago I was staying at a friends house in her bed. She actually woke me up at around 5am and asked if I was ok, in the morning I asked her why and she said she had woke suddenly and looked over at me and my head was back, jaw wide open and I didn't appear to be breathing..so I do genuinely think something is happenning while I sleep and its making me worry constantly :(
My GP is convinced this is all anxiety but I am not so sure, it seems like an easy way out if you have unexplained symptoms like these and are young and apparantley healthy. I am seeing a cardiologist on thursday who will hopefully do an 24 hour heart trace or echo scan etc..but just wondered if anyone had any similar experiences or input?
I have been under a lot of stress lately and while I have never felt anxiety in the past, I wouldnt be surprised if it was. I am just a bit worried at the sudden onset of these symptoms and its making my life a daily misery :(
Thanks for reading :)
I am a 25 year old male and for the past month have been quite alarmed by a number of symptoms which seem to have manifested out of thin air. The first thing to happen, I was at work when all of a sudden I felt dizzy and light headed and my heart began to race..I thought I was going to pass out and had cold shooting tingles down my arms and legs..and a whole host of other symptoms like a strange heavy sensation in my chest. My manager called an ambulance and I was taken to A&E. Whilst in the ambulance my pulse was 180 bpm and blood pressure something like 160/110. They took bloods and an ECG and told me everything was normal, apart from having a small heart murmur. So I went home very shaken and not sure what happened. I went to my doctor and he told me it was likely anxiety..he listened to my heart and took my BP and told me it was all fine.
Since then though I have been plagued by a whole array of symptoms. I will be sat there and suddenly feel cold, and have a weird sensation in my heart and go a bit dizzy..I have had to visit A&E two more times with similar episodes of extremely fast pulse and sensations of passing out and dizzyness..each time a similar story, bloods and ECG fine and sent home. This has led me to be constantly worried and I compulsively check my pulse all the time. It seems irregular to me, a few fast beats followed by a pause, then some slower ones. It also varies hugely, for example an hour ago it was 100 bpm and now it is just about 60 bpm.. yet I haven't got up off the sofa.
Other things that happen, I seem to have lost my apetite completely, I have no issue eating if I think to..but my natural urge to eat seems to have dissapeared.
I am also quite scared of falling asleep..a few times in the past I have awoken suddenly with the feeling that I have just stopped breathing or my heart has stopped, I usually put this down to dreaming and didn't think anything of it but lately I have became more and more worried about it. Sometimes at night my heart rate is very slow and I just feel like my natural urge to breathe is absent..and if I fell asleep I would just stop breathing. Its actually led to me laying there for hours and hours, and if I do feel like Im about to drop off I will set my alarm for 30 minutes time just to make sure I can wake up..Im sure none of this is helping any anxiety I may have.
Just for the record, I had never mentioned this worry to anyone, and two weeks ago I was staying at a friends house in her bed. She actually woke me up at around 5am and asked if I was ok, in the morning I asked her why and she said she had woke suddenly and looked over at me and my head was back, jaw wide open and I didn't appear to be breathing..so I do genuinely think something is happenning while I sleep and its making me worry constantly :(
My GP is convinced this is all anxiety but I am not so sure, it seems like an easy way out if you have unexplained symptoms like these and are young and apparantley healthy. I am seeing a cardiologist on thursday who will hopefully do an 24 hour heart trace or echo scan etc..but just wondered if anyone had any similar experiences or input?
I have been under a lot of stress lately and while I have never felt anxiety in the past, I wouldnt be surprised if it was. I am just a bit worried at the sudden onset of these symptoms and its making my life a daily misery :(
Thanks for reading :)